Door-hanger.



0. HAGER.

DOOR HANGER.

APPLxcAioN FILED Ausma, 191e.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

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o HAGER. DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION ULEBY AUG.16,1916

1,245,709. Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

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noon-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

Application filed August 16, 1916. Serial No. 115,353.

To ZZ wko/n t may concern.'

' Be it known that I, OLE HAGER, citizen of the United States, residingat Dovray, in the county of Murray and State of Minnesota, have inventedcert-ain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in door hangers intended fongeneraluse, but especially adapted for garage doors and the like, wherein thereis not suilicient room to swing the door inward on ordinary hinges. Tothe. above end, generally stated, the invention consists of the noveldevices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined inthe claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which. illustrate the invention, likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a. view in transverse section taken on the line 1 1- of Fig.2 and illustrating a garage or other building having in one end arelatively large door opening and double doors for closing the same,said doors being supported by a pair of the improved hangers;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the line 2 2- of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail view of thc left hand door hanger, asshown in Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale;

Fig. l is a fragmentary plan view of the right hand door hanger, asshown in Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 5 is a detail view principally in vertical section taken on theline 5-5- of Fig. 3,' and Fig. 6 is a` fragmentary detail view, partlyin plan and partly in horizontal section taken on the line 6-6- of Fig.1.

The numeral 1 indicates a garage or other building, having in one end arelatively large door opening 2, and the numeral 3 indicates doubledoors for closing said door opening and supported by a pair of theimproved door hangers.

A pair of hanger brackets 11 is bolted or otherwise rigidly secured tothe inner face of each door 3 at the top thereof. The uplthe openingmovements per end of these hanger brackets 4L are bent laterally overthe tops ofA the doors and terminates in an upright trunnion 5 locatedbetween the inner and outer faces of the doors. Rigidly secured to theframe of the building 1 'over they door opening 2, is a tubular track 6,having in its under side a longitudinal central opening 7 and upturnedlianges 8 at the edges of said opening As shown, the track '6 is boltedat its longitudinal center Yto the front of the building l and its 'endsare rigidly secured, one to each side wall of said building. It isimportant to note that lthe end portions of the track 6 diverOe andincline in the direction of of the respective doors 3.

The front edge portions of the doors 3 are supported from the track 6 byfourwheeled trucks 9 mounted in said track and arranged to run on thebottom thereof. The trunnions 5 on the hanger brackets et, at the frontedges of the doors 3, are extended through the opening 7 in the track 6and swiveled in said trucks. A pair of vertically extended shafts 10 areournaled in pairs of vertically spaced bearings l1, rigidly bolted tothe rafters of the building 1 and have on their upper ends heads 12,which engage the upper bearings 11 and suspend said shafts therefrom. Onthe lower ends of the shafts 1.0, are crank arms 13, the outer ends ofwhich are swiveled o-n the trunnions 5 of the outermost pair of hangerbracket-s 4:.

Obviously, the trucks 9 and crank arms 13 support the doors 3 forcompound edgewise and lateral movements from closed positions to openpositions, at approximately right angles to said closed positions. Therafters, on which the bearings 11 are secured. are rigidly braced, onefrom the other and from the roof structure to give the same the requiredstrength to support the doors. The outer ends of the crank arms 13 aresupported from the upper end portions of the shafts 10 by rods 14. Byreference to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be noted that when the doors 3 areclosed, the ends of the arms 13 extend under the track 6. By divergingthe end portions ofthe track 6 in the direction of the opening movementof the doors 3, suficient edgewise movement is imparted to the doors,during their opening and closing movements, to permit their verticaledge portions to clear the front wall of the building. W'hile in thedrawings, the track 6 is shown slightly inclined, the same may besecured to the building in a level position.

The doors 3 are held against inward swinging movement at the lower endsoit their meeting edges by a stop block 15 secured to the floor of thebuilding and having oppositely curved edges 16, which guide the doors atthe limit or their closing movements. rEhe outer edges of the doors 3are held against inward swinging movement by latch hooks 17 secured tothe inner vertical edges of the doors and arranged to automaticallyenter apertures in lock plates 18 secured to the door frame. A latch 19is provided tor locking the two doors together, when the same areolosed. This latch 19 may be or" any desired structure.

From the above description, it is evident that the doors 3 require verylittle room in their movement te and from open positions and when open,are entirely out of the way. The above described door hanger, whileextremely simple and of comparatively small Copies of this patent may beobtained for ve cents each, by addressing the cost to manufacture, has,in actual usage, proven highly eflicient itor vthe purpose had in view.

W hat I claim is z- The combination with a building having a dooropening and a door therefor, of an overhead track extending across andsubstantially parallel to the door opening, a traveler on the tracksupporting the door at one of its upper corners, and a crank arm securedto the building and supporting the door at its other upper corner, saidtraveler and crank arm supporting the door for oompound edgewise andlateral movement and said crank arm being ot sulicient length to permitthe door to move from a closed po sition to an open position atapproximately right angles to said closed position.

In testimony whereof I aliiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OLE HAGER. Witnesses:

RAY lVALKen,

A. C. EHRE.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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